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Those of us who are commuters have heard it all. Or so I thought. But yesterday Patrick McLoughlin, the bluff new Transport Secretary, confirmed that the West Coast train fiasco had been caused by the wrong sort of civil servants on the line.

It wasn’t Ministers. Oh no. The Laidlaw report had said that it was just the pesky civil servants who had got their sums wrong. “These incorrect figures varied in ways which were wrong,” said Mr McLoughlin.

Yes, I know it doesn’t make sense, but then this was a railway announcement. No one expects it to make sense